My Buffy history.
Since some people seem to have misunderstood my 'I came to fandom late' as 'I came to Buffy late' (which isn't surprising really, but that's what I get for writing in a hurry), I thought I'd write down how I fell for the show which is something I've wanted to do anyway (not individual characters, although that would be fun, but I just don't have
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First, I introduced E to the world of Buffy, oh yes I did. I was a fan of the original film long before all this nonsense started! And yes, I know, darling almighty Joss didn’t like it, but tough luck - it was a triumph of early 90’s magic realist cinema, and vies with ‘Dude, where’s my car?’ for the title of ‘Best Film Ever’. So anyway, when the TV show came out, I recall we were apprehensive about it being any good, but it turns out that it was, and anyway, Sarah Michelle Gellar.
Second, I don’t quite get all this ‘first I liked it, then I didn’t want to watch it, then this was confusing, but we liked such and such, so we started watching it again, and then I turned into a drooling fruitcake’! I always liked the show, always enjoyed it, and always felt it made a good evening’s entertainment, and I can’t ever remember either of us expressing any particularly deep consideration of this until the beginnings of E’s ( ... )
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